• A jagunço (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒaˈɡũsu]), from the Portuguese zarguncho (a weapon of African origin, similar to a short lance or chuzo), is an...
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    setting in the sertão and nearly all revolve around the figure of the jagunço, a mercenary-like figure that serves as a militia to farmers and secures...
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    time. Grande Sertão: Veredas is the complex story of Riobaldo, a former jagunço (mercenary or bandit) of the poor and steppe-like inland of the Rio São...
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  • the Jagunço / Killer Sete Homens Vivos ou Mortos (1969) O Cangaceiro Sem Deus (1969) O Cangaceiro Sanguinário (1969) - Capitão / Captain Jagunço Corisco...
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    in the Backlands] It narrates in first person the life of adventures of jagunço Riobaldo. He is joined by Diadorim, a boy for whom he begins to feel a...
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    bandits who served as irregulars during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. Jagunço – armed hand in Northern Brazil. Kachaks - Albanian bandits and rebels...
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    region, there were two main groups of loosely organized armed outlaws: the jagunços, mercenaries who worked for whoever paid their price, usually land-owners...
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    (in Portuguese). No. 55. pp. 26–33. Benício, Manoel (2013). O rei dos jagunços (PDF) ([2nd ed.] ed.). Brasilia: Senado Federal, Conselho Editorial....
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  • Carvana), the corrupt police chief of the town, hires Antônio das Mortes as a jagunço against Coirana and Antônio fatally wounds Coirana in a duel. However,...
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  • ambush referred to in the title is carried out by Natario de Fonseca, a jagunço in the service of a plantation owner, Colonel Boaventura. Twenty gunfighters...
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